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Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Huma...
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea, Hoeven, Rolph Van De...
Hardcover. Argues that several orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with long-term development in Africa. The book goes on to discuss a development strategy which could lead to a much awaited economic recovery and improvement in social conditions in Africa in the 1990s. Num Pages: 396 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; GTF; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 1. Weight in Grams: 669.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333573150
- ISBN
- 9780333573150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.91
€ 123.91
Hardback. Re-evaluates debates on education, modernity, and social change in contemporary development studies and anthropology. This book offers a perspective on how education affects the rural poor in South Asia. It includes reflection on the politics of modernity, changing rural masculinities, and caste and communal politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTF; JHM; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757423
- ISBN
- 9780804757423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.79
€ 124.79
paperback. Re-evaluates debates on education, modernity, and social change in contemporary development studies and anthropology. This book offers a perspective on how education affects the rural poor in South Asia. It includes reflection on the politics of modernity, changing rural masculinities, and caste and communal politics. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTF; JHM; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757430
- ISBN
- 9780804757430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.02
€ 31.99
€ 29.02
Hardcover. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; GTF; JPWH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403945242
- ISBN
- 9781403945242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Paperback. Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JFFS; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459827
- ISBN
- 9781349459827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.06
€ 63.06
Paperback. The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa. Editor(s): Clark, D. Series: Rethinking International Development Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347902
- ISBN
- 9781349347902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Paperback. Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change. Editor(s): Freeman, D. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HRA; JFC; JHM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437030
- ISBN
- 9781349437030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 144.14
€ 144.14
Paperback. Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in the UK (England and Northern Ireland), the Netherlands and France. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HRAM; JFD; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314508
- ISBN
- 9781349314508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Paperback. This volume explores the strategies available to non-governmental organizations in order to enhance their development work. It reviews appropriate development programmes, plus the likely problems to be encountered in each, and relates them to a range of specific case studies. Editor(s): Edwards, Michael. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JKSN1; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408. Library markings to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains in a good to very good condition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KI20000612
- ISBN
- 9781853831447
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. This biography of Sir Hans W. Singer, giving a detailed account of the way in which the "twists of fate" led him to becoming a leading development economist, contains a thematic synthesis of all his major theoretical and conceptual work and of the many initiatives in which he has been involved. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGB; GTF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780333711309
- ISBN
- 9780333711309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.54
€ 123.54
Paperback. This book looks ahead to consider the most likely results of the encounter between China and the international system.Environmental, cultural and perceptual matters are considered as well as more traditional economic and military issues. Underpinning the book is the question will the 21st century be 'China's Century', for China and the world?" Series: Global issues series. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBJF; JFC; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358823
- ISBN
- 9781349358823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349402816
- ISBN
- 9781349402816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.03
€ 123.03
Paperback. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; JHB; JPP; JPSD; JPSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437979
- ISBN
- 9781349437979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.23
€ 63.23
Paperback. Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this bookbrings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics inan attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development." Editor(s): Kingsbury, D.G. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFF; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351039
- ISBN
- 9781349351039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845935771
- ISBN
- 9781845935771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardback. BIC Classification: GTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572515
- ISBN
- 9780230572515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.51
€ 101.51
Paperback. A hard-hitting analysis of an African famine: why it happened, why it need not have happened and how the securitisation of the victims hindered attempts to bring aid relief Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; 3JMG; GTF; HBJH; HBLX; JFFC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145. .
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849045759
- ISBN
- 9781849045759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 41.07
€ 45.99
€ 41.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 19 black & white halftones, 16 bl. BIC Classification: GPS; GTF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 244 x 17. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415829571
- ISBN
- 9780415829571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.68
€ 87.68
Paperback. Series: Governance and Limited Statehood. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497454
- ISBN
- 9781349497454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.99
€ 62.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Resnick, Danielle; Thurlow, James. Series: Routledge Studies in African Development. Num Pages: 206 pages, 49 black & white illustrations, 33 black & white tables, 16 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; GTF; JFSP2; JHM; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138630451
- ISBN
- 9781138630451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.42€ 35.91
€ 54.42
€ 35.91
Paperback. Since the early 1980s, the World Bank, backed by aid donor countries, has been involved in a determined effort to stimulate capitalist growth in Africa by prescribing a set of orthodox, neoliberal economic policies.Using Ghana as a case study, this book considers why this is the case." Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JPA; JPS; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290000
- ISBN
- 9781349290000
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Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Posey, Darrell A.; Balick, Michael J. Series: Biology and Resource Management Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTF; RNC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231105897
- ISBN
- 9780231105897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.48
€ 49.99
€ 35.48
Hardback. This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations - particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored. Editor(s): Schulenkorf, Nico. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBS; WSBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289629
- ISBN
- 9781137289629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Schulenkorf, Nico. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHBS; JHM; JPA; JPQB; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450213
- ISBN
- 9781349450213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69